Elephant and Piggie

Kindergartners after the Elephant and Piggie musical at the Kennedy Center. 

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Work Time

Dina creates an original design.  Cooper does golden bead addition  and Adam counts the 7 long chain. 

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Work Time

Chloe and Laila work on art projects. Timur cracks nuts.

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Work Time

Caroline works on the 6 long chain. Ava reads a book and Michael writes words with the cursive movable alphabet. 

 

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Gingerbread Houses

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Gingerbread Houses

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Gingerbread Houses

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Gingerbread Houses

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Making Gingerbread Houses

We had lots of fun making gingerbread houses.  Many thanks to all the parent volunteers who helped us.

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CETA Poetry

Florence and Laila work on their alliteration poetry.

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CETA Lesson

CETA stands for Changing Education Through THE Arts. This is a program we have at Drew in which staff work with artists from the Kennedy Center

to learn ways to use art to teach academic subjects and vise versa.

The workshop I am participating in this year is Poetry and Music: Exploring Rhythm,  Reading and Writing.  After the class thought of many  words which begin with a particular letter sound we also listed adjectives and verbs which begin with the same sound.  Then we wrote alliteration poetry,  poetry focusing on 1 letter sound to help children learn letter sounds.  Kindergartners then wrote their own poems.

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Classwork - 4

Ms Brenda helps Christopher work on a sewing project. 

Adam writes his lesson words using a cursive movable alphabet. 

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Classwork - 3

Michael and Ahmed work on the 1000 chain counting by 10's to 1000 and then writing the numbers

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Classwork - 2

Timur works on the binomial cube.

 

Ibrahim and Angie play the peanut game using chopsticks.  It is a race to see who can put more peanuts in their bowl.

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Classwork - 1

Hadley and Dina make original designs using trapezoidal tiles in a hexagonal frame. 

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New Artists' Backpack

This is Caroline with the new Artists' Backpack. The focus in this backpack activity is on shapes.  Enclosed are 3 books to read with your child. Laminated papers are included showing many of the shapes we learn in Montessori and the correct names of the shapes that the children learn. Please use these shape names as you do your family art activity. Please include some of your artwork and the response sheet in the backpack when your child brings it back so your child can share them with the class.  Please complete the activity in an evening or two so we can keep it rotating. The youngest children will also participate in this art activity since they have also learned about shapes.  Have fun!

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